Reflecting on time
Last night we prepared a couple of loaves of bread (Honey Lemon Whole Wheat) to go into the oven this morning. They both should be pretty good because before bedtime they were both rising well above the rim of the pan.
As this was going on, we commented to each other about how fast this past year has gone by. As we were reflecting upon this I was inclined to think that this is how me make it or that we have some kind of control over it. We don’t. My sinful nature happens to surface when I am too busy thinking that I have some kind of control over anything!
Here is a good quote from a great Piper article on time:
Time is precious. We are fragile. Life is short. Eternity is long. … O, to be a faithful steward of the breath God has given me. Three texts resound in my ears: 1) “Redeem the time” (Ephesians 5:16); 2) “It is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy” (1 Corinthians 4:2); 3) “His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me” (1 Corinthians 15:10).
Surely God means for our minutes on earth to count for something significant. Paul said, “In the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain” (Philippians 2:16). In the same way, I have good hope from the Lord that my “labor is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58).
My prayer is that this year I won’t toil in vain (and I think of a little mouse in a wheel when I think of running and toiling in vain) by being caught up in this life and in the “here and now” of this time we all live in.
